Overview

In Ashes and Honey, the deeply emotional second installment of the Shannon and Jenna series, Shannon Nash is still learning how to live with her scars—and how to reach for something more. Two weeks sober and cautiously rebuilding, Shannon has a fragile rhythm with Jenna who keeps showing up with steady hands and a quiet kind of love.

But recovery isn’t a straight line. As old wounds resurface and ghosts of the past return, Shannon is forced to confront the mess she left behind with Grace—the ex-girlfriend she may have loved too hard, too destructively—and the possibility that she’s hurt others in ways she can’t even remember. A holiday relapse, a drugged drink, a violent misunderstanding—it all threatens to unravel the new life she’s barely begun to build with Jenna.

Jenna, haunted by her own past and tested by the reappearance of her toxic ex, must decide if she can still believe in Shannon when things fall apart again. But through grief, jealousy, a funeral, and a snowstorm, what begins to take shape between them is something neither not a fairytale, not a fix—but something real.

A soft place to land. A reason to stay. A love that’s not afraid to weather the hard days.

Told with aching honesty and quiet grace, Ashes and Honey is a story for women who know that healing is slow, that love is complicated, and that sometimes, just making it through the night is the bravest thing a person can do.